caring for an elderly falang in thailand - any experiences to share?

[Caroline Page]

Hi does anyone have experience of bringing an elderly relative over to Thailand to be cared for. My mother in law is in Australia in a residential home (low care) and has just been assess as needing to go to high care. This absolutely horrifies me as I have not found a high care facility in Perth that has the capacity to provide proper dignity based care. She is very mentally alert, no great medical problems other than being immobile (she is confined to a wheelchair)

We are therefore thinking of buying a house in our village and employing two or three full time carers to look after her (the house will be big enough for her to have one or two live in/stay overnight) . Does anyone have any experience of doing this in terms of the quality of staff that one can employ here, emergency treatment for the elderly (eg in case of heart attack or similar) or indeed if it is possible to buy specialised equipment such as hoist, disabled equipment for bathrooms etc?

Also, does anyone have any idea of cost of good quality care staff who speak some English (think MIL is too old to start learning Thai)

We live south of Hua Hin

Thanks in advance for any experiences shared - it's a great responsibilty to bring someone over of this age and just want to be sure that if it's practical that we do everything possible to make things comfortable and enjoyable for her

[Scarpolo]

sounds pretty dangerous.

have you ever seen how long it takes for an ambulance to arrive, in any fresh scene?

[White Christmas13]

There are high care facilities in Perth and some very good ones I might add

How do I know? Because my wife works in one they also care for Dementia patients.

I don't know if I can write the details here but you can always PM me and I will

gladly give you the details

Regards

[wym]

when I last looked at this there were quite a few constructive answers, including from NancyL about living will issues

database glitch?

[jaideeguy]

I care gave my father after a broken hip that occured in Hawaii and no other siblings could offer to help. I went to Hawaii and fetched him back to Chiang Mai in a wheelchair where he recovered successfully from the hip fracture and decided to stay on..............5 more years until he passed away by natural causes at 92 years.

The last two years we hired professional caregivers and sometimes that was more of a hindrance than help.

Main problem was communication as he was a good caregiver, but had almost 0% English skills and my Thai wife had to be the translator. It was one of the hardest projects that I've taken on, but we muddled thru it and he ended up with a decent death.

I got most of my support from a caregiver's forum out of the US and found that it takes a lot of creativity to do it here. Sheryl on the health forum was a godsend in offering suggestions and has a lot of experience with hospice, which is a big challenge that you may have to face at some point..................in fact, it's non existent and we had to DIY.

An option that wasn't available then is a few 'homes' have opened up here in CM and there may be some now down where you are.

I wish you luck in your project and feel free to PM me if you have any questions .

[NancyL]

There seems to be duplicate threads running on the same topics. I hope the mods can work some magic and merge them since both have useful information.

[Rimmer]

This is a duplicate topic of THIS one and can therefore be closed

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